Frank Zappa

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

So many books, so little time.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.